Barton Barbour

Barton H. Barbour received the Ph.D from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1993. He teaches courses in early American history, including upper division classes in Colonial America, Native American history and US Indian Policy, and North American Exploration.

Dr. Barbour worked for several years in museums and cultural institutions administered by local, state, and federal agencies. From 1998 to 2001, before coming to Boise State University, Barbour worked as a research historian with the National Park Service at Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has taught at the University of New Mexico and the Albuquerque Technical-Vocational Institute, at Bishop's University in Quebec, Canada, and he was a visiting professor at Boise State University in 1994-95.

Barton Barbour has had four books and several articles published, most of which deal with the history of the North American fur trade and its affects on various "frontiers" of society, ethnicity, business, law and politics. Currently. Dr. Barbour is writing a biography of the fur trader and explorer, Jedediah S. Smith, for the University of Oklahoma Press. His most recent book is "Fort Union and the Upper Missouri Fur Trade," published by the University of Oklahoma Press in early 2001. This book was a finalist for a Western Writers of America SPUR Award (2002) and received an honor award from the Denver Public Library's Caroline Bancroft Trust Award for Western History books (2003).

Office	L-179
Phone	208/426-1124
Email	bbarbour@boisestate.edu
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